Adaptor
An adaptor’s purpose is to adapt one Context to another Context. In Domain-Driven Design, this concept is known as an anti-corruption layer that keeps the ubiquitous language of one context “corrupting” the language of another context. The authors of RIDDL didn’t like that term for a variety of reasons so we have renamed the concept as adaptor in RIDDL. Same idea, different name.
Adaptors do their work at the level of messages sent between Contexts. This is done using one or more Handlers. Each handler specifies how messages are translated into other messages and forwarded to the target context.
Adaptors are only definable within a containing Context which provides one participant of the translation. The other Context, known as the target context, is specified within the definition of the adaptor.
Adaptors only translate in one direction, between the containing context and the target context. However, multiple Adaptors can be defined to achieve bidirectional adaptation between Contexts. The directionality of an Adaptor is specified in the definition of the adaptor. This leads to two kinds of adaptors: inbound and outbound.
Inbound adaptors provide an adaptation that occurs from the Context referenced in the adaptor to the Context containing the adaptor.
Outbound adaptors provide an adaptation that occurs from the Context containing the adaptor to the Context referenced in the adaptor.